Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose, Opening, part 4, sentence 39
Each said softly to his fellow, “Now shall we see courteous bearing, and the manner of speech befitting courts.
Who acts: we, manner · What happens: say, see, befit, court · To what, where: Each, fellow, courteous bearing · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, manner), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 said | obj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 2 said | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 fellow | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fellow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 see | advmod |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 13 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bearing | amod |
| 14 | bearing | bearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 courts | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 courts | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 manner | det |
| 18 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 courts | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 speech | case |
| 20 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 manner | nmod |
| 21 | befitting | befit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 courts | amod |
| 22 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 see | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Each | lord's fellow | softly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Topic to fellow=Recipient | |||
| 2 | see in a quote | shall | we | courteous bearing | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bearing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | befit in a quote | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | court in a quote | the manner of speech | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Middle-English Arthurian Romance Retold in Modern Prose» by Jessie L. Weston, Project Gutenberg book 66084 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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